Control Point Detector Parameters

This site will give you an overview about the different control point detectors and their main options to use with hugin. This settings can be changed in preferences dialog.
A detailed description of the individual settings can be found here

--maxmatches %p --projection %f,%v %o %i in version in Mercurial the parameter --projection is broken, use instead --maxmatches %p %o %i or --maxmatches %p %o %s (the latter works also for bigger projects)

Align_image_stack can also be used in conjugation with the above mentioned detector as special case for stacks. For this use case set Detector Type to Panorama with stacks or Multi-row panorama with stacks and set the options for align_image_stack on the tab Detector for stacks

Hints:

MacOSX: Both in the bundle version as in the cmake version you need to add align_image_stack without browsing for it and without adding a pathname, just align-image_stack.